Mukasa
Buganda · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Benevolent lubaale of Lake Nalubaale, health, and fertility; chief temple on Bubembe Island.
Parentage
- parent: Wanema
Domains
- lakes water
- health fertility
- harvest plenty
Powers
- Grant children, health, and abundant harvests
- Rule the great lake and its storms
Epithets
- Mukasa the great benevolent lubaale of Lake Nalubaale (Victoria), giver of plenty, health and children, whose Bubembe Island temple received cattle and cowrie offerings rather than human bloodRoscoe, John. The Baganda, Macmillan, 1911, ch. on the gods (primary ethnography)
Relations
- sibling: KibukaReciprocal of buganda_kibuka.sibling — The war-god Kibuka is the younger brother of the great lake-god Mukasa; both are Ssese Islands balubaale of the house of Wanema.John Roscoe, The Baganda (1911), ch. on the gods (Mukasa and Kibuka), pp. 290-308 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Roscoe, The Baganda (1911) (secondary)